Uncovering the way for a non-electric battery to accumulate solar energy

Uncovering the way for a non-electric battery to accumulate solar energy

Materials chemists have been attempting for years to develop a novel kind of battery for some time now that can accumulate solar or other light procured energy in chemical bonds rather than electrons, one that will release the energy on request as heat rather than electricity, super scribing the requirement for continuing, steady, effective repository of solar power.

Recently a team of materials chemists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by Dhandapani Venkataraman, with Ph.D. student and first author Seung Pyo Jeong, Ph.D. students Larry Renna, Connor Boyle and others, report that they have deciphered one of the crucial complications in the stream of expanding a polymer-based system. It can provide energy storage density, the aggregate of energy deposited, more than two times prominent than precursory polymer systems.

Venkataraman and Boyle say that precursory high energy storage density attained in a polymeric system was in the domain of 200 Joules per gram, while their modern system is adept to extend an average of 510 Joules per gram, with a maximum of 690….